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A REEL.

APPLIUATII vFILED UIB 11, 1909.

Patented Mar. 18, 1913.v

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WALLACE H. RoWE, oF PITTSBRGH, PENNsYLvANIA, AND ADoLP F. Rrn'rzEL, orwEs'rnnLY, RHODE ISLAND; 'SAID DIE'rzEL AssIGNon 'ro SAID nown.

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'To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, WALLACE HfRown, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, and ADoLPH F.'

R1nTznL,a citizen of the United States, and a resident of lVesterly, inthe county of Washington and State o-f Rhode Island, have inventedcertain new and useful Improveto provide a reel which shall be stronger,

cheaper and lighter than. the wooden reels customarily employed forholding and shipping metal wire and which shall also have the advantageof being indestructible by fire and of withstanding abuse inhandlingand,

shipping..

Reels for holding and shipping wire-as now customarily constructed aremade from wood and owing to the constant increase in thecost of woodsuch reels, instead of being made solid as was the practice, originally,have gradually been reduced to a skeleton form thus weakening theirconstruction and causing them to collapse frequently when handled fullof wire.

Reels constructed.,according to our invention also havethe advantagethat they may be made of uniform Weight whereas wooden reels asordinarily made for shipping wire, even though of the same standard sizeand style, will vary in weight a number. of pounds. wooden reels usedfor'shipping wire isobjectionable for reasons lwell-known to thoseengaged in the business of manufacturing and dealing in barbed or otherwire under prevailing business conditions. y j

Our present invention relates to the construction of a reel'made ofmetal and in such manner that it may be manufactured.

Specification of Letters .Patent Application med June 11, 1909. serialno. 501,512.

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Vfrom metal tubing or sheet' metal andso as further to permit theutilization of the process of electric welding in its manufacture.

To these ends our invention consists in the novel construct-ion of metalreel herein described in connection with thev accompanying drawings andin the details of constructio-n as more speciioally claimed in the an-Inexed claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan of a piece of metaltubing as prepared for constructing a metal reel. Fig. 2 is an end `Viewof the section of tubing. Fi 3 is an end View of the reel asmade fromsaid prepared section. 'Fig 4 shows a form of strengthening plate orflange that. is preferably used'in completing the reel. Fig. 5 is atransverse central section through the plate, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is an endview of lthe reel showing the metal plate applied to the skeleton reelshown in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a plan of the complete reel and shows alsothe employment of rods welded between the arms for increasing thediameter of the drum or body. Fig. 8 shows a sheet metal blank preparedfor constructing a reel. Fig.

9 is an end View of said plate. Fig. 10 shows the blank bent up to formthe body or drumgportion ofthe reel. Fig. 11 shows vthe skeleton of thereel after bending up of the ends of the tube shown lin end View in Fig.10. Fig.\12 is a plan of .a strengthening plate or .flange that may beapplied and electrically welded vto the end of the Askeleton reelillustrated in Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is an edge view ofthe plate shown inFig. 12.v

Fig. 14 is an end view of the complete reel.

Referring to Fig. 1, a piece of tubing of the desired length has itsfendslit, as shown, to divide the ends 'of the tube into segments which arelbent radially outward to form reel armsor wings. lThe portion 1 of saidtube forms the drum or body of the reel which may be given, if desired,a larger diameter by the employmentof rods welded in place, as will Abepresently described. In

this construction it will be noted that the` parts of the tube that formthe arms or wings retain t-heir original shape which opcrates vas a ribto stiften the arms. The project-ed edges of said arms afforded by theoutward presentation of the concave of the segments also serve aswelding project-ions ridge or rib o formed or provided in any suitableway on one face thereof and adapted'to engage upon the pro-jected edgesof the arms 3. By providing a circular or uninterrupted-projection 5 itis obvious that the plate will engage the arms by such a weldingprojection in any circumferential po-sition in which it may lie whenapplied to the skeleton reel end shown in Fig. 3.

While it would be within our invention to use awelding projection toformv one of the parts alonel we prefer to employ it upon both. Theoffice of this welding projection, aswell understood 'by those .skilledin the electric welding art, is to provide a contact area of limitedextent in which the flow of currentv and the .heating will be localizedand at which point the welding will be effectuated when the parts areassembled between welding electrodes and pressure is applied to forcethe `parts together.- As also well understood in the art, the shape ofSaid electrodes would be such as to accommodate the particular shape ofthe parts to be welded and while affording sufficient area to applycurrent to said-parts will likewise be of such shape as to effectuallyapply pressure over the welding points or projections. AS will also be'well understood by those skilled in the art, the welding projections maytake various shapes while, as already stated, be-

ing provided upon either or both of the parts. 'lVhen itis'desired toenlargel the circumference of 'the drumportion il, rods 6 may beinterposed between the arms 3, as

shown in Fig. 7, and welded in position be-l tween them, the ends of therods 6 being suitably prepared by point-ing or otherwise before beingput in place and the slight spring of the arms being suflicient to allowthemv to yield in the operation of completing the weld under thecompressionv ap' lied'to 'the outer sides of the reel arms over t erods.

In performing this operation itisobvious 'that Vario-us forms of clampinde vices may be utilized and that-the welding might be simultaneouslyeHected at both ends-of the rod 6 at once, or -that they might bewelded.

first at-one end and then at the other. Itis .obVimIs'further that theprovision of a weldowing to the fact that the projection 5 lies In Fig.8 a piece of sheet metal is shown.

as provided with slits 2 and intermediate ribs 7 between the slits.These ribs are preferably formed so that when theplate is bent into theform of the tube, as shown in the end view Fig. 10, they will projectwithin the tube. After the formation of the plate into the form shown inend View Fig. l0 or prior theretoyif desired, the ends of the plate arebent outwardly to form wings or arms 3. The ribs 7 in this instance formalone or in conjunction with the edges of the wings welding projectionsto which the strengthening plate 4 maybe welded. In this instance theplate 4 has cooperating welding projections 5 forlned on it in anydesired lway and at such points that they will match with or engage theribs 7 while the portions of the plane face of said plate, unprovidedwith projections, will lie against or engage the edges of the arms 3. Inthis -instance the edges 3 may serve alone as welding projections atsuch points of engagenient, although as will be obvious, the welding maybe effected alone at the points where 4projections 5 engage ribs 7. Inthe latter instance the weldingll would be started with the edges of thearmsl untouched by the survfacel of plate l but with projections 5 andribs 7 engaged. On the application of thc heating current and pressurethe parts would yield and the work would be completed with the surfaceof the plate abutted upon the edges of the arms or wings.

IVhat we claim as our invention is:

1. A metal reel comprising a body port-ion composed of metal tubin reelarms or wings projecting radially rom the ends of the tubular bodyportion and integral therewith and forming reel arms, and a metal platewelded on its faceto the faces of said wings by welding projections.

2. A metal reel consisting of a tubular sheet metal drum or bodyportion, radial arms or wings formed by outwardly bent port-ions of thetube and forming reel arms and a plate welded to the projected edges ofthe arms. 4

3. A sheet Ametalreel constructed of a sheet metal tube whose 'ends aredivided intosegments and bent radially outward to form wings `or armswith the'concave of the segment presented outwardly and a plate weldedto the edges of said segment as and for the purpose described. Q

4. In a metalfreel, a body or drum portion of metal havingv radialmet-a1 'arms or wings forming reel arms and a plate welded ition of thearms or wings.

' 5. In a metal reel, a sheet metal'body portion and 'reel arms or wingsprojecting) raj dially from the ends of the sheet metal' ody portion andhaving radial ribs, and a strengthening plate Welded by itsy face tosaid ribs.

6. In a metal reel, a sheet metal body pori tio-n and integral reel armsor wings projecting radially from the ends of the sheet metal bodyportion and having radial ribs,

and a plate provided with projections onits face Welded to said ribs.

Signed at Pittsbilrgh, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, this 29th day of April, 1909.

WALLACE H. ROWE.

Witnesses: Ro'r. D. To'r'rEN JOHN A. McLEAN. Signed at- Stonington inthe county d New. London and State vof Conn. this 19th day of March,1909.

ADOLPH F. RIETZEL. Witnesses: 4

CHARLES F. VINCENT, BELLE MINER..

